While your grievances are valid, I feel like you're missing the point. Or perhaps you think of programming than he does. It is certainly true that in a situatio

While your grievances are valid, I feel like you're missing the point. Or perhaps you think of programming than he does. It is certainly true that in a situation where all you want to do is get a task done, then what you should really think about is the best tool for completing the task (sometimes its a spreadsheet but programmers will often go for a little python instead). But in the case where your just programming for the sake of programming. Where programming is the ends and the problem you're solving is the means, this is where the nit-picky language comparisons blogs I think start to happen and I think its great.